Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 is Google's advanced reasoning model with an intelligence index of 29.5, LiveCodeBench at 0.770, and GPQA at 0.822, placing it among the strongest models with verified benchmark data. Its 1M token context window and support for text, image, audio, video, and file inputs make it one of the most capable multimodal models available.

For businesses, the combination of large context, strong coding performance, tool use, function calling, and vision support makes it a versatile fit for autonomous coding agents, long-document analysis, multimodal content pipelines, and complex reasoning tasks. The breadth of modality support is a genuine competitive advantage for teams consolidating workflows.

Pricing at $1.25 input / $10.00 output per million tokens is moderate on input but expensive on output, so it rewards high-value, low-volume tasks. Teams needing frontier-level reasoning with maximum context and multimodal capability will find it a strong production choice.

Assessed June 6, 2026

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